Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel Volumes 1-3 (1860, 1861, 1862-3)
by Francis Galton, M.A. F.R.S
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1864. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cambridge, London : Macmillan and Co. 1861-[1864]. First Edition.
•Collation complete with all pages; 3 volumes:
•Notes of Travel in 1860 - [viii], 483
•Notes of Travel in 1861 - [viii], 418
•Notes of Travel in 1862-3 - [viii], 524, [4]
•15 full-page engraved maps
•Provenance: Armorial bookplate - Bibliothèque du Château de Grenade
•Language: English
•Binding: Leather; tight & secure
•Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15cm)
Llight abbasions to some corners of the top and bottom of backs Light foxing to endpapers but text and maps clean Overall excellent - see photos
Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade. Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel" is a lovely three volume set which surveys travel all over the world from Naples to Peru in 1860-1864 There are many illustrations throughout the text as well as 15 maps! Sir Francis Galton, was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist and then some A very intelligent man who was a half-cousin of Charles Darwin.
•Collation complete with all pages; 3 volumes:
•Notes of Travel in 1860 - [viii], 483
•Notes of Travel in 1861 - [viii], 418
•Notes of Travel in 1862-3 - [viii], 524, [4]
•15 full-page engraved maps
•Provenance: Armorial bookplate - Bibliothèque du Château de Grenade
•Language: English
•Binding: Leather; tight & secure
•Size: ~8in X 6in (20cm x 15cm)
Llight abbasions to some corners of the top and bottom of backs Light foxing to endpapers but text and maps clean Overall excellent - see photos
Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade. Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel" is a lovely three volume set which surveys travel all over the world from Naples to Peru in 1860-1864 There are many illustrations throughout the text as well as 15 maps! Sir Francis Galton, was an English Victorian statistician, progressive, polymath, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist and then some A very intelligent man who was a half-cousin of Charles Darwin.
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- Rare Books Honolulu (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Vacation Tourists and Notes of Travel Volumes 1-3 (1860, 1861, 1862-3)
- Author
- Francis Galton, M.A. F.R.S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1864
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration;
- Product_type
- 1
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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